Quotes About Emotional intelligence

If you want to kick-start your shame resilience and story-claiming, start with these questions. Figuring out the answers can change your life: 1. Who do you become when you're backed into that shame corner? 2. How do you protect yourself? 3.

We invite compassion onto our lives when we act compassionately toward ourselves and others, and we feel connected in our lives when we reach out and connect.

There are too many people today who instead of feeling hurt are acting out their hurt; instead of acknowledging pain, they're inflicting pain on others. Rather than risking feeling disappointed, they're choosing to live disappointed.

Stephen Covey's sage advice still stands: "Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

when we don't care at all what people think and we're immune to hurt, we're also ineffective at connecting. Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism. Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.

Researchers found that labeling the emotion as excitement seems to hinge on interpreting the bodily sensations as positive. The labels are important because they help us know what to do next.

We cannot give our children what we don't have. Where we are on our journey of living and loving with our whole hearts is a much stronger indicator of parenting success than anything we can learn from how-to books.

Empathy is feeling with people. Sympathy is feeling for them. Empathy fuels connection. Sympathy drives disconnection. I always think of empathy as this sacred space where someone's in a deep well, and they shout out from the bottom, "It's dark and scary down here. I'm overwhelmed.

No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.

no writing is a waste of time--no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work.

The only way to become a better writer is to become a better person

I want to assure you with all earnestness that no writing is a waste of time--no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something.

I'm slowing learning how to straddles the tension that comes with understanding I am tough and tender, brave and afraid, strong and struggling-all of these things, all of he time. I'm working on letting go of having to be one or the other and embracing the wholeness of wholeheartedness.

Nothing is a blinding as neurotic self-pity. We walk around in a fog.

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

By offering premature advice on how to cope, by rushing to reassure, by prodding with advice, we say much about our own need for easy closure. When we barge in with such consolation, we make hurting souls into objects or projects.

detach ourselves from making our individual experience the criterion for our approach to others

men, who in all other instances want common sense, are very Machiavels in the art of loving.

I was a taskmaster: hyperdirect and critical without finesse. I'd practically yell at people when frustrated and thought that was acceptable because that's what my idols did - Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg.

I went through a political shift when I was nineteen or twenty. I felt a certain way, and after the shift, I felt the opposite way. And never once did someone yelling at me or making me feel stupid do anything other than reinforce the convictions I had. What did get to me was people listening to me.

You can't get your head around something if you're yelling.

In my experience, yelling at people that they are wrong and disgusting rarely wins the argument, nor changes point of view.

I'm so moody all the time; I know I couldn't be able to run a country, because I would be crying one day and yelling at people the next day, you know?

I never say no or yes. I just listen to how I feel and follow my emotions.